Friday Jumble

Taken by Ten yesterday morning

Stuck in my head yesterday—I’m Your Captain/I’m getting closer to home by Grand Funk Railroad. Why? I always remember the last stanza as, “I’m getting closer to the end.” Warum? Well, as you know, this has been one hell of a fucked up year. Shit's feeling a little apocalyptic.

• The Evil Orange Menace lost his job but the mentally diseased horde that he unleashed isn’t gonna go back into their box easily or quickly.
• I’ve had three neurosurgeries. The last being a real motherfucker from which I’ll be recovering for another six months to a year or more.
• Daddy had the cruel audacity to croak on me.
• Oh and we seem to be having a deadly pandemic which an unfortunate portion of the country view as a political sham. Now, I don’t wish death on anyone but it’s difficult to gin up empathy for idiots who ignore facts and reality.
  

On that note, I thought vaccination was required for ALL hospital, hospice AND nursing home employees. I assumed it was a necessary part of the gig. Get vaccinated or go elsewhere for employment. Considering how much time I spend in MGH and MEEI, imagine my surprise to read that employees only needed to ‘attest to their wellness.’ Lemme just say !!!!!!!! What what the absolute J&J fuck! What percentage of these folks at these world famous medic joints were vaxxed while I was in?

My view while reading

You all know that you can be a plague carrier for two days or more without showing symptoms, right?

As of June 24th, 85% of Mass General Brigham (MGH’s new name) employees had already been jabbed. Now that the FDA has approved Pfizer-BioNTech getting vaxxed will be required if you want to keep your job. Good!

From a June 28th WebMD post:

Vaccination rates range from a high of 99% at Houston Methodist Hospital, which was the first in the nation to mandate the shots for its workers, to a low between 30% and 40% at some hospitals in Florida.

Florida. No surprise there.

My father, in a rural Western Pennsylvania rehab/nursing home was infected by, probably, a well intentioned worker who felt fine but, unknowingly, carried in the virus. The joint was shut to all visitors, only opened to workers. Someone who worked there brought it in.

n.b., there are 11 states which ban COVID-19 vaccine mandates, even for health care workers. n.b. part two, the governors of all these states are republicans. Can you say, culling the herd? Sure you can! This is why republicans are keen on gerrymandering  and voter suppression. They can only win when they cheat.

The good news of the week. I haven’t fallen since Wednesday. Yea me! 

Oh, your word for the day is Orogeny—a noun meaning:

 the process of mountain formation especially by folding of the earth's crust.

The area was uplifted by the Laramide orogeny during latest Cretaceous.

Somehow I doubt I'll be fitting this into conversation anytime soon.